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1347Reasoning About the Mark of the Cognitive: A Response to Adams and Garrison (review)Minds and Machines (2): 1-11. 2013.I critically examine Adams and Garrison’s proposed necessary condition for the mark of the cognitive (Adams and Garrison in Minds Mach 23(3):339–352, 2013). After a brief presentation of their position, I argue not only that their proposal is in need of additional support, but also that it is too restrictive
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2426The Moral Dimensions of Boredom: A call for researchReview of General Psychology 21 (1): 30-48. 2017.Despite the impressive progress that has been made on both the empirical and conceptual fronts of boredom research, there is one facet of boredom that has received remarkably little attention. This is boredom's relationship to morality. The aim of this article is to explore the moral dimensions of boredom and to argue that boredom is a morally relevant personality trait. The presence of trait boredom hinders our capacity to flourish and in doing so hurts our prospects for a moral life.
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1879Embodied Conceivability: How to Keep the Phenomenal Concept Strategy GroundedMind and Language 31 (5): 580-611. 2016.The Phenomenal Concept Strategy offers the physicalist perhaps the most promising means of explaining why the connection between mental facts and physical facts appears to be contingent even though it is not. In this article, we show that the large body of evidence suggesting that our concepts are often embodied and grounded in sensorimotor systems speaks against standard forms of the PCS. We argue, nevertheless, that it is possible to formulate a novel version of the PCS that is thoroughly in k…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
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| Metaphysics |
| Philosophy of Mind |
| Phenomenal Concepts |
| Formulating Physicalism |
| Boredom |
| Explaining Consciousness? |
| Consciousness and Materialism |
| Emotions, Misc |
PhilPapers Editorships
| Physicalism |
| Dualism |
| Psychophysical Supervenience |
| Moods |
| Boredom |